PAL Virtual Console Friday

After last week's slow start to the year, Nintendo's Virtual Console is gradually picking up pace in the EU, with both Alien Storm and StarTropics available this week.

StarTropics is a NES action adventure following in the footsteps of the original Zelda. Released in 1990, the original boxed copy came with a letter that was integral to a latter stage of the game. The Virtual Console release comes with a digital reproduction of the original artifact. Isn't that interesting?

Alien Storm is the 1991 Mega Drive action game, which plays like a futuristic Golden Axe complete with a cast of grotesque ETs to bother. The side-scrolling levels are interspersed with first-person mini games where you get the chance to shoot the bejesus out of a variety of shop interiors, which we fondly remember being a whole world of fun.